I am an environmental and energy economist and a post-doc at Yale School of the Environment. My research focuses on the microeconomics of energy and climate innovation: Who adopts new technologies and why? How can the government direct—and speed up—technical change? How do manufacturers and innovators respond to both policy and politics? I use a combination of economic modeling and causal inference to investigate these questions.
Prior to Yale, I was a research fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency where I worked on cars, including light and medium-duty vehicle rule making, and environmental justice questions. I earned my Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. I also hold degrees from The University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University. Before graduate school, I ran a small biofuel company1 Details. in Braddock, Pennsylvania.2 Now famously the home of Senator John Fetterman who was mayor at the time.
I am on the job market. Here is my research statment, and my job market paper.
â‹… ASSA 2024 Annual Meeting
â‹… Seminar in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
â‹… NBER Economics of Energy Use in Transportation [slides]
How is Rooftop Solar Capitalized in Home Prices? With Kenneth Gillingham.
R&R at Regional Science and Urban Economics.
[Working paper]3 Key figure. Full solar capitalization assumes a high discount rate.
Attribute Production and Technical Change in Automobiles. 2023.
With Soren Anderson and Gloria Helfand. [NBER]4 Key figure. Estimated technical change is substantially fuel-economy biased (left). Consumer preferences for size, acceleration, and fuel economy have all increaed (right).
Political Risk Reduces Solar Adoption in Renewable Portfolio Standards. 2022.5 Dissertation chapter. [Slides]
Co-adoption of Rooftop Solar and Electric Vehicles. With Bryan Bollinger and Kenneth Gillingham.6 DOE grant funded.
Green vs Grid-independence Messaging: Evidence from a Residential Battery Storage Field Experiment. With Bryan Bollinger and Kenneth Gillingham.7 Ibid.
Against the Wind? Hedonic Estimation Under Attribute Uncertainty.